Argentine Tango is a dance that has influences from Spanish and African culture.

 

Dances from the candombe ceremonies of former slave peoples helped shape the modern day Tango. The dance originated in lower-class districts of Buenos Aires.

The music derived from the fusion of various forms of music from Europe. The word Tango seems to have first been used in connection with the dance in the 1890s. Initially it was just one of the many dances, but it soon became popular throughout society, as theatres and street barrel organs spread it from the suburbs to the working-class slums, which were packed with hundreds of thousands of European immigrants, primarily Italians, Spanish and French... Continuing further down...

 

 

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New York Times Cover

August 25, 2007

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

Tango performance

Porteno Ballarin

Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

 

Tango performance

Club Gricel

Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

  Teaching Argentine Tango  

 

 

 

With my Tango Student

Sueno Porteno

Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

 

Dancing with Julia Pugliese

Sueno Porteno

Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

Made it to the Chinese newspapers

 

 

Tango performance

La Bocca

Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

 

 

 

Casa De Tango

October 2010

New York City

 

 

 

Lafayette Grill NYC

Tango Workshop

Assisted by Gabriella

 

 

 

TRIAD THEATER

BROADWAY NYC